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Photoshop Textures Magic

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I've read many websites that explain how to make textures but so far (and after 3yrs of dabbleing with Photoshop books and sites) this is still the BEST book how to make surreal textures. Each step is laid out with a picture for each step. It tells you exactly how to do the step too. After it shows you how to make the texture, it then gives 2 or 3 examples on how to make alterations to create differnt types of the same texture. Just some of the textures it shows how to make are water, bricks, wood, stone, pearl, sand, cement, and like 20 others.

This book is very good, to my knowledge this is the only book that teaches usefull textures and many realistic effects such as wood, rock, metal, leather, coblestone, bricks and many more. If you want to be able to make textures by hand without cheesy plugins, this will start you out and almost perfect your skills.

I have used this book quite a bit over the last week. I need to use textures in my line of work and the techniques this book has given me will make my life that much easier. Not only do you get some great "tricks" for creating such textures as wood, wicker, rock and water, you also benefit by learning how versatile Photoshop is! The only negative about this book is that the CD-ROM supplied does not work on a PC based system.

I recommend this book to anyone with working knowledge of Photoshop. The textures are not only fun to create but you can learn things along the way. The CD is full of third party demo's which are dissapointing... throw the CD away, but you'll want to keep the book handy.